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authorPetr Malat <oss@malat.biz>2013-02-28 01:01:52 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-02-28 15:37:30 -0500
commitb2a431915d19893f047e0dd149d0c1b9d2a0b960 (patch)
treee3e507b869479b8ba8b09667b159c3dbc606cf4c /drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
parentd521de04a73abb5e662c12eafa8c839aaaa6ae4f (diff)
phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak
Fix memory leak in phy_device_free() for the case when phy_device* returned by phy_device_create() is not registered in the system. Bug description: phy_device_create() sets name of kobject using dev_set_name(), which allocates memory using kvasprintf(), but this memory isn't freed if the underlying device isn't registered properly, because kobject_cleanup() is not called in that case. This can happen (and actually is happening on our machines) if phy_device_register(), called by mdiobus_scan(), fails. Patch description: Embedded struct device is initialized in phy_device_create() and it counterpart phy_device_free() just drops one reference to the device, which leads to proper deinitialization including releasing the kobject name memory. Signed-off-by: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 9930f9999561..3657b4a29124 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
void phy_device_free(struct phy_device *phydev)
{
- kfree(phydev);
+ put_device(&phydev->dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_free);
static void phy_device_release(struct device *dev)
{
- phy_device_free(to_phy_device(dev));
+ kfree(to_phy_device(dev));
}
static struct phy_driver genphy_driver;
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id,
there's no driver _already_ loaded. */
request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT, MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id));
+ device_initialize(&dev->dev);
+
return dev;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_create);
@@ -363,9 +365,9 @@ int phy_device_register(struct phy_device *phydev)
/* Run all of the fixups for this PHY */
phy_scan_fixups(phydev);
- err = device_register(&phydev->dev);
+ err = device_add(&phydev->dev);
if (err) {
- pr_err("phy %d failed to register\n", phydev->addr);
+ pr_err("PHY %d failed to add\n", phydev->addr);
goto out;
}